Winners of the Paducah-McCracken County NAACP chapter's 2026 Fredrickia Hargrove-MLK Jr. Essay and Poster Contest share their prize-winning works with WKMS. This year's contest theme was "Empowering Our Youth to Be Agents of Change."

The state’s new domestic violence registry is live on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation website. But so far, it does not include much information.

Around 85% of county races in WKMS’ coverage area will likely be decided before the general election this fall – either because few or no people are running for these seats, or because the field will be narrowed down to one candidate in the May’s primary elections.

As federal immigration policies spark protests across the country, Kentucky GOP lawmakers filed at least five bills designed to encourage or require more local and state participation in immigration enforcement.

A Louisville native with experience working with major television and film networks and studios is now attached to direct the Kentucky Film Office, the state agency geared toward marketing the Bluegrass State to the entertainment industry.

Republicans in the Kentucky Senate gave priority status to a bill that could return driver’s license renewals back to county offices, citing long wait times at regional offices.

A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.

As President Trump began a pattern of deploying the National Guard to democratic-led cities, several Democratic attorneys general and their staffs worked to coordinate their fight against the deployments – and, ultimately, they won.

President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.

Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.